On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 7:57 AM Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> With native userspace drivers in guest, a lot of GEM objects need to be
> neither shared nor mappable. And in fact making everything mappable
> and/or sharable results in unreasonably high fd usage in host VMM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This is for a thing I'm working on, a new virtgpu context type that
> allows for running native userspace driver in the guest, with a
> thin shim in the host VMM. In this case, the guest has a lot of
> GEM buffer objects which need to be neither shared nor mappable.
>
> Alternative idea is to just drop the restriction that blob_flags
> be non-zero. I'm ok with either approach.
Dropping the restriction sounds better to me.
What is the use case for such a resource? Does the host need to know
such a resource exists?
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c | 7 ++++++-
> include/uapi/drm/virtgpu_drm.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c
> index 69f1952f3144..92e1ba6b8078 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
>
> #define VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_MASK (VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_MAPPABLE | \
> VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_SHAREABLE | \
> - VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_CROSS_DEVICE)
> + VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_CROSS_DEVICE | \
> + VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_INTERNAL)
>
> static int virtio_gpu_fence_event_create(struct drm_device *dev,
> struct drm_file *file,
> @@ -662,6 +663,10 @@ static int verify_blob(struct virtio_gpu_device *vgdev,
> params->size = rc_blob->size;
> params->blob = true;
> params->blob_flags = rc_blob->blob_flags;
> +
> + /* USE_INTERNAL is local to guest kernel, don't past to host: */
> + params->blob_flags &= ~VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_INTERNAL;
> +
> return 0;
> }
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/virtgpu_drm.h b/include/uapi/drm/virtgpu_drm.h
> index 0512fde5e697..62b7483e5c60 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/drm/virtgpu_drm.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/drm/virtgpu_drm.h
> @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ struct drm_virtgpu_resource_create_blob {
> #define VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_MAPPABLE 0x0001
> #define VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_SHAREABLE 0x0002
> #define VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_CROSS_DEVICE 0x0004
> +#define VIRTGPU_BLOB_FLAG_USE_INTERNAL 0x0008 /* not-mappable, not-shareable */
> /* zero is invalid blob_mem */
> __u32 blob_mem;
> __u32 blob_flags;
> --
> 2.34.1
>
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